maandag 1 april 2013

Inspiring motivation succes guide

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
Thomas A. Edison

Believe
in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but
reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or
happy.
Norman Vincent Peale

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
Epictetus

I
have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through
honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain,
those you deal with should gain as well. ~Alan Greenspan

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure. ~Earl Wilson

The
first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation
applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The
second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will
magnify the inefficiency. ~Bill Gates

Perpetual devotion to what
a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect
of many other things. ~Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus puerisque,
1881

Success is 99 percent failure. ~Soichiro Honda

One should have a heart as ice to earn and die as l'only one can be Donald TrumP

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to put its pants on. ~Winston Churchill

If
falsehood, like truth, had but one face, we would be more on equal
terms. For we would consider the contrary of what the liar said to be
certain. But the opposite of truth has a hundred thousand faces and an
infinite field. ~Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

When a man lies, he
murders some part of the world. ~Rospo Pallenberg and John Boorman,
Excalibur, based on Le Morte d'Arthur by Thomas Malory

It
is not without good reason said, that he who has not a good memory
should never take upon him the trade of lying. ~Michel de Montaigne,
translated from French

People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty. ~Richard J. Needham

The road to success is to do it together

At first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you. ~Arthur McAuliff (Thanks, Fernanda)

If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried. ~Author Unknown

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then give up. There's no use in being a damn fool about it. ~W.C. Fields

If at first you do succeed - try to hide your astonishment. ~Author Unknown

There is always a way to be honest without being brutal. ~Arthur Dobrin

If
we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I
suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.
~Bertrand Russell

It is impossible to calculate the moral
mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in
society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity
of his mind as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does
not believe he has prepared himself for the commission of every other
crime. ~Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason

Beware of the half truth. You may have gotten hold of the wrong half. ~Author Unknown

When truth is divided, errors multiply. ~Eli Siegel, Damned Welcome

Truth is such a rare thing, it is delightful to tell it. ~Emily Dickinson

Do not fall before you are pushed. ~English Proverb

When "Why not do it?" barely outweights "Why do it?" - don't do it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

If
you hate your lot but wouldn't trade it, it's not your lot you hate.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

You live and let live. And eventually, that becomes enough. ~Author Unknown

Half
the failures in life arise from pulling in the horse as he is leaping.
~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by
Two Brothers, 1827

When you invite trouble, it's usually quick to accept. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Giving up doesn't always mean you are weak. Sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go. ~Author Unknown

Promise only what you can deliver. Then deliver more than you promise. ~Author Unknown

All philosophy in two words, - sustain and abstain. ~Epictetus

Always
watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the
Forest that was left out by mistake. ~Pooh's Little Instruction Book,
inspired by A.A. Milne

Don't compromise yourself. You're all you've got. ~Janis Joplin

Be
not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you
cannot make yourself as you wish to be. ~Thomas à Kempis, Imitation of
Christ, c.1420

You've got a lot of choices. If getting out of
bed in the morning is a chore and you're not smiling on a regular basis,
try another choice. ~Steven D. Woodhull (U.S. geologist, 1976-)

What
saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the
same step, but you have to take it. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind,
Sand and Stars, 1939, translated from French by Lewis Galantière

Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It happens every day. ~Albert Camus, The Fall, 1956

Good
for the body is the work of the body, and good for the soul is the work
of the soul, and good for either is the work of the other. ~Henry
David Thoreau

Anyone
can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his
work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently,
lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all life really
means. ~Robert Louis Stevenson

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree. ~Jim Rohn

See everything; overlook a great deal; correct a little. ~Pope John XXIII

Give thanks for what you are now, and keep fighting for what you want to be tomorrow. ~Fernanda Miramontes-Landeros

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You
will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write
on scratched-out pages. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook,
1960

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Benjamin Franklin

I
think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to
philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business. ~Henry
David Thoreau

If you want to ruin the truth, stretch it. ~Author Unknown

The truth is more important than the facts. ~Frank Lloyd Wright

Like all valuable commodities, truth is often counterfeited. ~James Cardinal Gibbons

If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it. ~Toni Morrison

Never miss an opportunity to make others happy, even if you have to leave them alone in order to do it. ~Author Unknown

Do
not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the
enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity. ~Max Lerner,
Actions and Passions, 1949

The secret to happiness in your work is to find a job in which your neurosis is constructive. ~Jeanne LaMont, MD

Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste. ~Brecht

Now that it's all over, what did you really do yesterday that's worth mentioning? ~Coleman Cox

Laziness will cause you pain. ~Slogan on T-shirt worn at the Vee Arnis Jitsu School of Self-Defense

[O]wning your burdens is half the battle. ~From the television show Scrubs

Have
courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones;
and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep
in peace. ~Victor Hugo

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood. ~William James

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him. ~Leo Aikman

Tough
and funny and a little bit kind: that is as near to perfection as a
human being can be. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook,
1966

I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum. ~Frances Willard

God
grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage
to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it's me. ~Author
unknown, variation of an excerpt from "The Serenity Prayer" by Reinhold
Neibuhr

A day is Eternity's seed, and we are its Gardeners. ~Erika Harris

People
cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless
you let them. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses
at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827

Excess on occasion is
exhilirating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening
effect of a habit. ~W. Somerset Maugham, The Summing Up, 1938

The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself. ~Alfred Lord Tennyson, "The Last Tournament," Idylls of the King

I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes. ~Sara Teasdale, "The Philosopher"

Every
one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grows the
more things he will consign to it - torn up to irrecoverable tatters.
~Samuel Butler

One can enjoy a wood fire worthily only when he warms his thoughts by it as well as his hands and feet. ~Odell Shepard

Practical
life teaches us that people may differ and that both may be wrong: it
also teaches us that people may differ and both be right. Anchor
yourself fast in the latter faith, or the former will sweep your heart
away. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth,
by Two Brothers, 1827

You are never alone or helpless. The force that guides the stars guides you too. ~Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar

The
important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice that
which we are for what we could become. ~Charles Du Bos, Approximations,
1922, translated from French (Thanks, Lorianne!)

Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. ~Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter. ~Edward Abbey

There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day. ~Alexander Woollcott

[T]ime you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. ~Marthe Troly-Curtin

It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it. ~Albert Einstein

Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts. ~Charles Dickens

If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer. ~Dag Hammarskjold

When you start treating people like people, they become people. ~Paul Vitale

Be kind to your shadow. ~Rebecca Lawless

I
thought growing up was something that happened automatically as you got
older. But it turns out it's something you have to choose to do.
~From the television show Scrubs

The only way you may correct the bad things in your past is to add better things to your future. ~Shiloh Morrison

If you have to do it every day, for God's sake learn to do it well. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never let a problem to be solved become more important than the person to be loved. ~Barbara Johnson

You
do not have the right to quit trying. (The universe wobbles when you
do.) You have the right to quit Toxic People. (They're contagious.) ~Dr.
SunWolf,

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. ~Robert Louis Stevenson

In
this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the
greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the
long run, the easiest. ~Henry Miller, The Books in My Life

Never
explain. Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe
it anyway. ~Elbert Hubbard, A Thousand and One Epigrams, 1911

Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong. ~Dandemis

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. ~Theodore Roosevelt

Whatever we worship, short of God, is sure to be our undoing. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

I
think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field
somewhere and don't notice it.... People think pleasing God is all God
care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying
to please us back. ~Alice Walker, The Color Purple, 1982

Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself. ~Elbert Hubbard

On
the bathing-tub of King T'ang the following words were engraved: "If
you would one day renovate yourself, do so from day to day. Yea, let
there be daily renovation." ~Confucian Analects

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. ~Jimmy Johnson

What
a strange narrowness of mind now is that, to think the things we have
not known are better than the things we have known. ~Samuel Johnson

To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning. ~John W. Gardner

There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go. ~Tennessee Williams (Thomas Lanier)

Face what you think you believe and you will be surprised. ~William Hale White

Just
remember, there's a right way and a wrong way to do everything and the
wrong way is to keep trying to make everybody else do it the right way.
~M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter

Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped. ~African Proverb

Whatever you are be a good one. ~Abraham Lincoln

It's better to fight for something than against something. ~Author Unknown

The day will happen whether or not you get up. ~John Ciardi

Create
each day anew by clothing yourself with heaven and earth, bathing
yourself with wisdom and love, and placing yourself in the heart of
Mother Nature. ~Morihei Ueshiba

Nature gave men two ends - one
to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most. ~George R.
Kirkpatrick

One should always play fair when one has the winning cards. ~Oscar Wilde

Strength will grow from the heart, blossom as results, and wither in others' hearts as seeds. ~Mikhael Dominico

To
finish the moment, to find the journey’s end in every step of the road,
to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom. ~Ralph Waldo
Emerson

Think of your faults the first part of the night when you
are awake, and the faults of others the latter part of the night when
you are asleep. ~Chinese Proverb

When you live in reaction, you give your power away. Then you get to experience what you gave your power to. ~N. Smith

Every ten years a man should give himself a good kick in the pants. ~Edward Steichen

Life is like riding a bicycle - in order to keep your balance, you must keep moving. ~Albert Einstein

The winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail. ~Ramakrishna

Surely
a man needs a closed place wherein he may strike root and, like the
seed, become. But also he needs the great Milky Way above him and the
vast sea spaces, though neither stars nor ocean serve his daily needs.
~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Wisdom of the Sands, translated from
French by Stuart Gilbert

Never believe in mirrors or newspapers. ~Tom Stoppard

I
may be justifying my pockets of chaos, but I will always choose people
over perfection and the heart over task and tidy. ~Betsy Cañas Garmon,

Never confuse thoughtlessness with malice. ~Robert Charles Whitehead

Yet some things you miss and some things you lose by keeping your arm outstretched. ~Author Unknown

You want to run out in front, prepare to be tripped from behind. ~S.A. Sachs

Now and then it is a joy to have one's table red with wine and roses. ~Oscar Wilde

It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark. ~Howard Ruff, How to Prosper in the Coming Bad Years, 1979

We
are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing
how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out. ~Ray
Bradbury

I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one
advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to
live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success
unexpected in common hours.... In proportion as he simplifies his life,
the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not
be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. ~Henry David
Thoreau

Just be ordinary and nothing special. Eat your food,
move your bowels, pass water, and when you're tired, go and lie down.
The ignorant will laugh at me, but the wise will understand. ~Bruce Lee

Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich. ~Sarah Bernhardt

While seeking revenge, dig two graves - one for yourself. ~Doug Horton

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? ~Abraham Lincoln

Be true to your word and your work and your friend... ~John Boyle O'Reilly, from the poem "Rules of the Road"

"It's
a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door," he used to say.
"You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no
knowing where you might be swept off to." ~J.R.R. Tolkien, "Three Is
Company," The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, 1954

There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures. ~James Thurber

It
is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you
industrious about? ~Henry David Thoreau, letter to H.G.O. Blake, 16
November 1857

Spread joy. Chase your wildest dreams. ~Patch Adams

Don't get your knickers in a knot. Nothing is solved and it just makes you walk funny. ~Kathryn Carpenter

Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven. ~G.C. Lichtenberg

Be still like a mountain and flow like a great river. ~Lao Tzu

We
must have passed through life unobservantly, if we have never perceived
that a man is very much himself what he thinks of others. ~Frederick
W. Faber

Never saw off the branch you are on, unless you are being hanged from it. ~Stanislaw Lec

Watch the little things; a small leak will sink a great ship. ~Benjamin Franklin

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away. ~Author Unknown

No
armies are needed, no weapons are needed, no nations are needed, no
religions are needed. All that is needed is a little meditativeness, a
little silence, a little love, a little more humanity... just a little
more, and existence will become fragrant with something so totally
unique and new that you will have to find a new category for it.
~Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of
things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof.
~Martin H. Fischer

Is bread the better for kneading? so is the
heart. Knead it then by spiritual exercises; or God must knead it by
afflictions. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at
Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827

The best way to predict your future
is to create it. ~Author unknown, variant of "The future cannot be
predicted, but futures can be invented" by Dennis Gabor, Inventing the
Future, 1963, and "The best way to predict the future is to invent it"
by Alan Kay, 1982

You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. ~Irish Proverb

Beware of a man of one book. ~English Proverb

Never
make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own
head. You'll find what you need to furnish it - memory, friends you can
trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go
with you wherever you journey. ~Tad Williams

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards. ~Baltasar Gracián, translated from Spanish

It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed. ~Horace

Leaves
are light, and useless, and idle, and wavering, and changeable; they
even dance; and yet God in his wisdom has made them a part of oaks. And
in so doing he has given us a lesson, not to deny the stout-heartedness
within because we see the lightsomeness without. ~Augustus William
Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. ~Henry David Thoreau

Friends
and neighbors complain that taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those
laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might the
more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more
grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness,
three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly.
~Benjamin Franklin

Be nice to those you meet on the way up. They're the same folks you'll meet on the way down. ~Walter Winchell, 1932

When you throw dirt, you lose ground. ~Texan Proverb

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up. ~Albert Schweitzer

Everyone
should learn to do one thing supremely well because he likes it, and
one thing supremely well because he detests it. ~Brigham Young

Sometimes
the only way you can take a really good look at yourself is through
somebody else's eyes. ~From the television show Scrubs

Sometimes the best way to hold onto something is to let it go. ~Author Unknown

It isn't what you know that counts, it's what you think of in time. ~Author Unknown

The
future lies before you, like paths of pure white snow. Be careful how
you tread it, for every step will show. ~Author Unknown

For visions come not to polluted eyes. ~Mary Howitt

Speak
what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls and to-tomorrow
speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict
every thing you said to-day. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Remedy it, or welcome it: a wise man's only two choices. ~Terri Guillemets

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. ~Chinese Proverb

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you're the easiest person to fool. ~Richard Feynman

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk. ~Joaquin de Setanti

God is good, but never dance in a small boat. ~Irish Saying

It is better to stir up a question without deciding it, than to decide it without stirring it up. ~Joseph Joubert

Sandwich every bit of criticism between two thick layers of praise. ~Mary Kay Ash

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. ~Malcolm S. Forbes

I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better. ~Glenda Jackson

A little candor never leaves me. It is what protects me. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

It
is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses
no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness,
accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great
rents in the quotidian. ~John Updike

No mask like open truth to cover lies,
As to go naked is the best disguise.
~William Congreve

Truth
that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the
deeper is the impression it makes; this is partly because it gets
unobstructed hold of the hearer’s mind without his being distracted by
secondary thoughts, and partly because he feels that here he is not
being corrupted or deceived by the arts of rhetoric, but that the whole
effect is got from the thing itself. ~Arthur Schopenhauer, translated
from German

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing the matter with this, except that it ain't so. ~Mark Twain, Notebook, 1935

Reality is bad enough. Why should I tell the truth? ~Patrick Sky

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after. ~Slovenian Proverb

Always tell the truth. Even if you have to make it up. ~Author Unknown

The cruelest lies are often told in silence. ~Adlai Stevenson

The
truth is the only thing worth having, and, in a civilized life, like
ours, where so many risks are removed, facing it is almost the only
courageous thing left to do. ~E.V. Lucas

The highest compact we can make with our fellow is - "Let there be truth between us two forevermore." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth. ~Mark Twain, Following the Equator

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. ~Oscar Wilde

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. ~Mark Twain

Society
can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying
and that no one says exactly what he thinks. ~Lin Yutang

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation. ~Saki

Some
people will not tolerate such emotional honesty in communication. They
would rather defend their dishonesty on the grounds that it might hurt
others. Therefore, having rationalized their phoniness into nobility,
they settle for superficial relationships. ~Author Unknown

It takes two to lie. One to lie and one to listen. ~Homer Simpson, The Simpsons

There's one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him. If he says, "Yes," you know he is a crook. ~Groucho Marx

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives. ~Mark Twain

Success will never be a big step in the future, success is a small step taken just now. ~Jonatan Mårtensson

Some people succeed because they are destined to, but most people succeed because they are determined to. ~Author Unknown

Flaming
enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality
that most frequently makes for success. ~Dale Carnegie

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing. ~Abraham Lincoln

Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get. ~Dale Carnegie

Success
is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in
life as by the obstacles which he has overcome. ~Booker T. Washington

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. ~George Smith Patton

It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final. ~Author Unknown

How
can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty
years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten? ~Logan Smith

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style. ~Quentin Crisp

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. ~Albert Einstein

Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good. ~Joe Paterno

If at first you don't succeed, do it like your mother told you. ~Author Unknown

Eighty percent of success is showing up. ~Woody Allen

I don't pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages. ~Robert Bosch

Royals and dictators are the most stupid creatures of the universe Albert Einstein.

Men
err when they think they can be inhuman exploiters in their business
life, and loving husbands and fathers at home. ~Smiley Blanton

Let's
be honest. There's not a business anywhere that is without problems.
Business is complicated and imperfect. Every business everywhere is
staffed with imperfect human beings and exists by providing a product or
service to other imperfect human beings. ~Bob Parsons

Successful enterprises are usually led by a proven chief executive who is a competent benevolent dictator. ~Richard Pratt

The
man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much
he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a
dollar, is bound to succeed. ~Henry Ford

Success and failure.
We think of them as opposites, but they're really not. They're
companions - the hero and the sidekick. ~Laurence Shames

To find
someone who will love you through success and failure is to discover
how little life has to do with either. ~Robert Brault

The man
who has done his level best, and who is conscious that he has done his
best, is a success, even though the world may write him down as a
failure. ~B.C. Forbes

Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction. ~Al Bernstein

The
NBA is never just a business. It's always business. It's always
personal. All good businesses are personal. The best businesses are
very personal. ~Mark Cuban

It is an immutable law in business
that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are
promises but only performance is reality. ~Harold Geneen

You can't file a conversation. ~Author Unknown

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. ~Winston Churchill

What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins. ~Gene Fowler

We never know, believe me, when we have succeeded best. ~Miguel de Unamuno, Essays and Soliloquies, 1925

Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world. ~Lily Tomlin

I couldn't wait for success... so I went ahead without it. ~Jonathan Winters

There is no point at which you can say, "Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap." ~Carrie Fisher

Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally. ~David Frost

Some people dream of success... while others wake up and work hard at it. ~Author Unknown

Give
a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he
will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage
of fish and he will eat steak. ~Jay Leno

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell. ~Confucius

It
is unfortunate we can't buy many business executives for what they are
worth and sell them for what they think they are worth. ~Malcolm Forbes

Too
many people think only of their own profit. But business opportunity
seldom knocks on the door of self-centered people. No customer ever
goes to a store merely to please the storekeeper. ~Kazuo Inamori

A
man of business may talk of philosophy; a man who has none may practise
it. ~Alexander Pope, Thoughts on Various Subjects, 1727

Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country. ~Norman Cousins

Work as if you own the company and soon you just might. ~Mike Dolan,

To
take something from a person and keep it for oneself: that is robbery.
To take something from one person and then turn it over to another in
exchange for as much money as you can get: that is business. Robbery
is so much more stupid, since it is satisfied with a single, frequently
dangerous profit; whereas in business it can be doubled without danger.
~Octave Mirbeau, Torture Garden

As you climb the ladder of
success, be sure it's leaning against the right building. ~Quoted in
P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

If at first you don't succeed, you're running about average. ~M.H. Alderson

Dealing
with people is probably the biggest problem you face, especially if you
are in business. Yes, and that is also true if you are a housewife,
architect or engineer. ~Dale Carnegie

A consultant is a man sent in after the battle to bayonet the wounded. ~Author Unknown

The results of quality work last longer than the shock of high prices. ~Author Unknown

It
doesn't matter how many times you fail. It doesn't matter how many
times you almost get it right. No one is going to know or care about
your failures, and neither should you. All you have to do is learn from
them and those around you because... All that matters in business is
that you get it right once. Then everyone can tell you how lucky you
are. ~Mark Cuban

Smarts and action are on the same side of the equation where the sum is success. ~Garrett Hazel

Success
is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it.... Success is
shy - it won't come out while you're watching. ~Tennessee Williams

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. ~William Feather

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way. ~Christopher Morley

How do you achieve success? Well, for one thing, you don't define it before you achieve it. ~Robert Brault

To freely bloom - that is my definition of success. ~Gerry Spence

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. ~Irving Berlin

Commerce,
n. A kind of transaction in which A plunders from B the goods of C, and
for compensation B picks the pocket of D of money belonging to E.
~Ambrose Bierce, The Cynic's World Book, 1906

You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough. ~Joseph E. Levine

Professionalism is a frame of mind, not a paycheck. ~Cecil Castle

In
college, Yuppies major in business administration. If to meet certain
requirements they have to take a liberal arts course, they take Business
Poetry. ~Dave Barry

Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in man. ~Author Unknown

Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions. ~Edward R. Murrow

Make the workmanship surpass the materials. ~Ovid

A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation. ~Howard Scott

The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules. ~Elting E. Morison

There are so many men who can figure costs, and so few who can measure values. ~Author Unknown

For
all of its faults, it gives most hardworking people a chance to improve
themselves economically, even as the deck is stacked in favor of the
privileged few. Here are the choices most of us face in such a system:
Get bitter or get busy. ~Bill O'Reilly, about capitalism

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. ~Bill Gates, Business @ the Speed of Thought

People that pay for things never complain. It's the guy you give something to that you can't please. ~Will Rogers

To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart. ~Thomas Watson, Sr.

In
the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and
experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
~Harold Geneen

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. ~Henry Ford

Business is a combination of war and sport. ~André Maurois

The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers. ~John Egan

Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority. ~William Arthur Ward

It is
not the employer who pays the wages. He only handles the money. It is
the product that pays the wages. ~Henry Ford, 1922, also sometimes
quoted as "It is the customer that pays the wages"

Hire character. Train skill. ~Peter Schutz

He
has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much;
who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of little
children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who has
left the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a
perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who has never lacked appreciation of
earth's beauty or failed to express it; who has always looked for the
best in others and given them the best he had; whose life was an
inspiration; whose memory a benediction. ~Bessie Stanley, 1905,
commonly misattributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson

In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book

Always desire to learn something useful.
Sophocles

Well done is better than well said.
Benjamin Franklin

It
is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that
you would lie if you were in his place. ~Henry Louis Mencken, A Little
Book in C Major, 1916

If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything. ~Mark Twain

Who lies for you will lie against you. ~Bosnian Proverb

No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar. ~Abraham Lincoln

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world. ~Thomas Carlyle

A half truth is a whole lie. ~Yiddish Proverb

A
lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and
beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and
left out the lie. ~Charles Edward Montague, Disenchantment

Every lie is two lies — the lie we tell others and the lie we tell ourselves to justify it. ~Robert Brault,

Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind. ~Austin O'Malley

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent. ~William Blake, "Auguries of Innocence"

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold. ~Aristotle

Dare to be true: nothing can need a lie: A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby. ~George Herbert

With lies you may get ahead in the world - but you can never go back. ~Russian proverb

Honesty
is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the
world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread. ~Josh Billings

The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff. ~Ambrose Bierce

A lie has speed, but truth has endurance. ~Edgar J. Mohn

When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback. ~Bill Copeland

Truth is the most valuable thing we have, so I try to conserve it. ~Mark Twain

Honesty is never seen sitting astride the fence. ~Lemuel K. Washburn, Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays, 1911

A lie may take care of the present, but it has no future. ~Author Unknown

I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid. ~John Gotti

We
tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of
what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But
every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger. ~Tad
Williams

Truth fears no questions. ~Unknown

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously. ~Thomas Sowell

I
dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on
earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he
has succeeded in courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a
goal in front and not behind. ~George Bernard Shaw, 28 August 1896

Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves. ~Larry King

Success has made failures of many men. ~Cindy Adams

Some aspects of success seem rather silly as death approaches. ~Donald A. Miller

Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it. ~Author Unknown

That
man is successful who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much,
who has gained the respect of the intelligent men and the love of
children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves
the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a
perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of
earth's beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in
others and gave the best he had. ~Robert Louis Stevenson

Success is more permanent when you achieve it without destroying your principles. ~Walter Cronkite

The two hardest things to handle in life are failure and success. ~Author Unknown

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it. ~Elbert Hubbard

The
moral flabbiness born of the bitch-goddess SUCCESS. That - with the
squalid interpretation put on the word success - is our national
disease. ~William James, 11 September 1906

The closer one gets to the top, the more one finds there is no "top." ~Nancy Barcus

Something
in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of
greatest accomplishment. As you become successful, you will need a
great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance,
humility, and commitment. ~Ross Perot

What will matter is not your success but your significance.... ~Michael Josephson, from "What Will Matter" (poem), 2003

Commerce,
n. A kind of transaction in which A plunders from B the goods of C, and
for compensation B picks the pocket of D of money belonging to E.
~Ambrose Bierce, The Cynic's World Book, 1906

You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough. ~Joseph E. Levine

Professionalism is a frame of mind, not a paycheck. ~Cecil Castle

In
college, Yuppies major in business administration. If to meet certain
requirements they have to take a liberal arts course, they take Business
Poetry. ~Dave Barry

Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in man. ~Author Unknown

Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions. ~Edward R. Murrow

Make the workmanship surpass the materials. ~Ovid

A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation. ~Howard Scott

The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules. ~Elting E. Morison

There are so many men who can figure costs, and so few who can measure values. ~Author Unknown

For
all of its faults, it gives most hardworking people a chance to improve
themselves economically, even as the deck is stacked in favor of the
privileged few. Here are the choices most of us face in such a system:
Get bitter or get busy. ~Bill O'Reilly, about capitalism

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. ~Bill Gates, Business @ the Speed of Thought

People that pay for things never complain. It's the guy you give something to that you can't please. ~Will Rogers

To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart. ~Thomas Watson, Sr.

In
the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and
experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
~Harold Geneen

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. ~Henry Ford

Business is a combination of war and sport. ~André Maurois

The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers. ~John Egan

Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority. ~William Arthur Ward

It is
not the employer who pays the wages. He only handles the money. It is
the product that pays the wages. ~Henry Ford, 1922, also sometimes
quoted as "It is the customer that pays the wages"

Hire character. Train skill. ~Peter Schutz

He
has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much;
who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of little
children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who has
left the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a
perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who has never lacked appreciation of
earth's beauty or failed to express it; who has always looked for the
best in others and given them the best he had; whose life was an
inspiration; whose memory a benediction. ~Bessie Stanley, 1905,
commonly misattributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson

In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book

Always desire to learn something useful.
Sophocles

Well done is better than well said.
Benjamin Franklin

It
is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that
you would lie if you were in his place. ~Henry Louis Mencken, A Little
Book in C Major, 1916

If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything. ~Mark Twain

Who lies for you will lie against you. ~Bosnian Proverb

No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar. ~Abraham Lincoln

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world. ~Thomas Carlyle

A half truth is a whole lie. ~Yiddish Proverb

A
lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and
beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and
left out the lie. ~Charles Edward Montague, Disenchantment

Every lie is two lies — the lie we tell others and the lie we tell ourselves to justify it. ~Robert Brault,

Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind. ~Austin O'Malley

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent. ~William Blake, "Auguries of Innocence"

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold. ~Aristotle

Dare to be true: nothing can need a lie: A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby. ~George Herbert

With lies you may get ahead in the world - but you can never go back. ~Russian proverb

Honesty
is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the
world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread. ~Josh Billings

The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff. ~Ambrose Bierce

A lie has speed, but truth has endurance. ~Edgar J. Mohn

When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback. ~Bill Copeland

Truth is the most valuable thing we have, so I try to conserve it. ~Mark Twain

Honesty is never seen sitting astride the fence. ~Lemuel K. Washburn, Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays, 1911

A lie may take care of the present, but it has no future. ~Author Unknown

I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid. ~John Gotti

We
tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of
what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But
every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger. ~Tad
Williams

Truth fears no questions. ~Unknown

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously. ~Thomas Sowell

I
dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on
earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he
has succeeded in courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a
goal in front and not behind. ~George Bernard Shaw, 28 August 1896

Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves. ~Larry King

Success has made failures of many men. ~Cindy Adams

Some aspects of success seem rather silly as death approaches. ~Donald A. Miller

Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it. ~Author Unknown

That
man is successful who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much,
who has gained the respect of the intelligent men and the love of
children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves
the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a
perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of
earth's beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in
others and gave the best he had. ~Robert Louis Stevenson

Success is more permanent when you achieve it without destroying your principles. ~Walter Cronkite

The two hardest things to handle in life are failure and success. ~Author Unknown

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it. ~Elbert Hubbard

The
moral flabbiness born of the bitch-goddess SUCCESS. That - with the
squalid interpretation put on the word success - is our national
disease. ~William James, 11 September 1906

The closer one gets to the top, the more one finds there is no "top." ~Nancy Barcus

Something
in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of
greatest accomplishment. As you become successful, you will need a
great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance,
humility, and commitment. ~Ross Perot

What will matter is not your success but your significance.... ~Michael Josephson, from "What Will Matter" (poem), 2003